http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18299011

They are still plugging away at the Drought Meme

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/arti...cId=N0121861338995600902A

Only when we are up to our necks in it will they declare the "drought" to be over.

Folks will have to be washed away in the torrent before they will admit to it being a "bit damp"

Today has been like a monsoon

Note

"Richard Aylard, sustainability director for Thames Water, said: "The record spring rainfall has eased the situation considerably."


note: record spring rainfall does not a drought make


1976 we had a drought in the UK - we haven't had one since but obviously the "we are in the middle of a climatic catastrophe" has to be pushed out at every available opportunity.

Just for the record ... we're not in the middle of a climate catastrophe, nor the beginning or end of one either.


1976 ... 36 years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_United_Kingdom_heat_wave

Tsunami-loosened dock on Oregon coast raises concerns about future debris, foreign organisms, what to do with it http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-n...osened_dock_on_orego.html

another day of relentless drought has befallen the UK

Everywhere people are going around saying "Water, Water"

This is usually accompanied with a pointing action

It's everywhere

http://www.buienradar.be/europa

http://wolken.buienradar.nl/ <- we are somewhere under the eye of that storm

They tell us it's Summer and that we are also in the grip of an ever warming world on account of a trace gas making up less than 0.04% of the atmosphere which is in reality the source of the whole Earth's food chain combining itself with a splash of H20 through the action of Sunlight on a very clever molecule going by the name Chlorophyll http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/chlorophyll/chlorophyll_h.htm to make Glucose which ultimately enables the very existence of you and me.


This is handily contained in plant leaves and algae.

You might be forgiven for thinking it had been designed like that.

If it wasn't i'd say it was a miracle


Dave

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Joe Bastardi : “Here Comes The El Nino, Right On Schedule”
Posted on June 8, 2012

Guest post by Joe Bastardi.

Joe lets us know what to expect over the next nine months.

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The coming nino is in line with the cold pdo el ninos we saw in the 1950s-1970s and most recently in 2009-2010. This has been well telegraphed and a mainstay of the Weatherbell.com forecast since winter. In fact the pattern is not dissimilar to the la nina/el nino couplet of 1975-1976 where a very warm winter was followed by a very cold winter. The key is that the el nino coming, because of the overall now cold decadal state of the Pacific, will be centered in the central Pacific while the eastern Pacific is not as cool.

As a side note, the forecast of the development of the nino was part of the reason Weatherbell has the lowest Ace Index forecast of the major players. I believe that that lass than 1/3 the total ace of 70-90 this year occurs south of 25 north, where we have seen the strongest of the storms in the big ace season the past 10 years. However the forecast, made back in March , is already showing merit with the idea that the problem this year will be in close development with over 50% of the ace within 200 miles of the US coast. There seems to be linkage to very cold 400 mb temps in March with el ninos coming on, as the 10 lowest ace years have temps below normal from Africa to the Caribbean at that level in March and in 7 of them, an el nino developed! Well it did this year too. By the way, the way I started looking at that was because I was debunking the IPCC trapping idea and came up with this linkage in my studies. So this will be an interesting test. I presented this idea, along with a tornado linkage to temps at that level, at the ICCC7 conference, so its not like I am saying this after the fact. http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/06/08...l-nino-right-on-schedule/